New Castle Utilities, IN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
New Castle Utilities serves about 19,880 people through 7,613 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Henry County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5233011; phone on file: 765-521-6841. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Castle Utilities is 25.1 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 12.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 25.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 3.2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 687 Indiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.31 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. New Castle Utilities's 2.7 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Indiana and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Henry County
8 other systems share Henry County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than New Castle Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Castle Correctional Facility | 3,160 | 2.69 ppb |
| Knightstown Water Utility | 2,182 | 1.68 ppb |
| Middletown Water Utility | 2,050 | 4.7 ppb |
| Spiceland Municipal Water Utility | 969 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shirley Municipal Water | 960 | 1.16 ppb |
| Lewisville Water Works | 392 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Summit Water Utility | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golden Pebbles Estates | 107 | 1.76 ppb |
Next steps for New Castle, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Castle, IN may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask New Castle Utilities whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.